Anthony Horowitz admits using ChatGPT all the time in writing
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Updated · The Independent · May 6
Anthony Horowitz admits using ChatGPT all the time in writing
5 articles · Updated · The Independent · May 6
The 71-year-old Alex Rider creator said he feels "nervous" and likened the practice to cheating while plotting the next Hawthorne and Horowitz novel.
He said AI is useful for instant information but must be checked against other sources, citing its suggestion of "ellipsoid" to describe a potato as a clear limitation.
Horowitz, promoting A Deadly Episode, said crime fiction offers truth and justice in an age of fake news, and added he has quit social media and now starts days with poetry.
Will the fictional Horowitz in his next novel use AI, mirroring the author's own 'nervous' experiments with the technology?
Is Horowitz's 'cheating' confession a warning, or the future where every author has an AI co-pilot?
By using AI after quitting 'toxic' social media, is Horowitz trading one problematic algorithm for another in his creative life?